Your Speedometer should read 0-80 mph. The 0-90 didn't come out until 1952.
Joe
----- Original Message -----
From: <JohnHuntD@aol.com>
To: <oletrucks@autox.team.net>; <old-chevy-truck@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 8:37 PM
Subject: [oletrucks] Speedometer question
> I recently purchased from Chevy Duty a Gauge Decal Kit for my 1949 Chevy
3/4
> ton pickup. (I was delighted that what they sent me was a sheet of very
easy
> to install adhesive-backed gauge faces as opposed to the water-related
> "decals" I used to put on plastic model airplane kits with generally
> miserable results.)
>
> Printed on the sheet of new gauge faces Chevy Duty sent me were the words
> "For 1947-49 Chevrolet". The replacement speedometer gauge face reads from
> zero to 80 MPH, and has a whole in the bottom (at the 6 o'clock position)
for
> the high beam indicator light.
>
> When I pulled the old speedometer out of the truck I noticed it read from
> zero to 90 MPH, and the high beam indicator light was at the top (12
o'clock
> position). I've had the truck just a little over a year, and in driving it
> around the neighborhood my impression is the actual road speed is
> considerably less than what the speedometer indicates. Quite possibly a
> previous owner of this truck replaced the original speedo with something
out
> of another Chevy vehicle.
>
> This is clearly not a big deal, but I'd appreciate an e-mail from anyone
who
> can tell me what the original 49 3/4 ton pickup speedometer looks like:
0 -
> 80 MPH with high beam indicator at 6 o'clock, or 0-90 MPH with high beam
> indicator at 12 o'clock?
>
> Thank you in advance.
>
> John Doak in Baltimore, MD
> oletrucks is devoted to Chevy and GM trucks built between 1941 and 1959
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